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CAVO Continues to Advance Open Source for Democracy
OSI Affiliate Member, the California Association of Voting Officials (CAVO), has shared some exciting news regarding their advocacy work in San Francisco: according to the San Francisco Examiner, the city of San Francisco is pushing forward with plans to develop their open source election system. In addition, the paper is reporting that the San Francisco…
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2018 Membership Drive…
February, 3rd, 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the OSI:Please join today The OSI will launch our fourth annual Individual Membership Drive, coinciding with our 20th anniversary, Feb 3rd, 2018 and running through March 16th, 2018. Our membership drive goal is to sign up 2,398 members in celebration of our founding on 2/3/98 — “2,398…
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Update on San Francisco’s Open Source Voting System!
As many may know, the OSI has been involved in supporting the adoption of an open source elections system in San Francisco, California. The following is an update from Chris Jerdonek, Elections Commissioner & President of the San Francisco Elections Commission. We’d like to thank Chris for all of his hard work in raising awareness…
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OSI Board of Directors Call for Nominations
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to announce our 2017 election and seeks your nominations for candidates to serve on the OSI Board of Directors. This year, 2017, three (3) Individual Members seats are open, and one (1) Affiliate Member seat. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is managed by a member-elected Board of Directors…
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Thank you, …we’re not there yet.
“Not there yet…” that phrase actually highlights where we are with several important initiatives here at the OSI and even with open source software broadly. First, and most pressing for us today, we’re not there yet in our fund raising goals for 2016, and we’re asking those working with open source software—those who not only…
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‘Tis The Season…
This year you’re probably inundated with requests for financial support from a variety of very worthy causes, including many from open source software projects, and other organizations working to promote software freedom. Indeed we here at the OSI are running our own end-of-the-year fund raiser, and we hope you will contribute. However we also want…
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@osi Just posted my answer to the OSI Governance Survey.In short: the OSI Board is required to have clear and…